About Printbox

Run your own photo product business

Printbox allows you to sell customizable photo products. This company offers a complete package containing ready-to-go e-commerce on your domain that has your branding, including a beautiful editor filled with photo product templates and a high-quality PDF file generator. Each component is focused on conversion and is tailored to accommodate the specific needs of both small businesses and larger enterprises.

The Challenge

A few words about the Printbox project

Printbox asked us to build an interdisciplinary team of developers and designers that would understand the Printbox culture, the tech complexity of the company, its methodologies, and the essence of its products. Printbox wanted a dedicated workflow with a clear process, methodology, and contract structure for their cooperation with us.

Feel

The Printbox culture & product.

Understand

The complexity of the tech background.

Collect

An interdisciplinary team to cover a wide range of needs.

Build

The proper process and methodology using the best tools.

Prepare

A dedicated contract structure including a wide range of services and fair work settlement method.

The Solution

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1. Printbox culture

We got to know each other to get a real feel for the Printbox culture.

Behind every brilliant idea and every strong project stands an exceptional team. Our first goal was to get to know these people and their specific work culture to understand how Printbox delivers successful printing solutions and technological advantages to their clients around the world. We discovered three factors behind their success - see them in bold below.

Printbox is successful thanks to their talented, dedicated, and hard-working employees, who work to provide the ultimate value for their partners.

Prtinbox is successful thanks to their strong development team, which has built the ultimate end2end IT solution, providing a technological edge over the competition.

Printbox is successful thanks to their work culture, which frees the spirit of cooperation, friendship, and the sharing of knowledge.

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2. The product and tech background

We went deep into Printbox's product and the tech background.

It's a huge thing to be a one-stop shop for the eCommerce needs of the digital printing industry. You've got to account for rapid changes in the market, big cloud & data storage challenges, complex eCommerce platforms, online photo editors, and mobile apps. You also have to consider social media integration and the future of JS & HTML5 app development. That's a lot of tech stuff to take care of! To understand it all better, we went deep into this complex but beautiful tech background to gain a better understanding of Printbox products.

Battlefield view:

ONOFF

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3. Scope of work

We chose our first fields of cooperation together.

After we saw the inner workings of Printbox and the real scope of the work ahead of us, we chose the first fields of cooperation and prepared to get down to business.

Prototyping

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Mobile wireframing

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App wireframing

Web wireframing

Design

Web design

Responsive web design

Web UI Design

Mobile UI design

UX design

Interaction design

Front-end / JS coding

Front-end coding

RWD coding

JS development

React.js development

Web development

PHP development

Django development

Wordpress development

Magento development

Shopify development

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Presta development

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4. The team

We collected the right people.

In order to deliver quality work and meet the company's wide-ranging needs, we collected an interdisciplinary team of developers and designers with the proper experience and gave them the tools they needed to get the job done right.

Łukasz

Paweł

Anzhelika

Grzegorz

Agnieszka

Paweł

Paweł

Tools we used:

UXPin

inVision

Asana

Adobe Photoshop

Sketch app

React JS

Webpack

Gulp

WebStorm

PostCSS

Adobe Edge

Bootstrap

PrestaShop

Symfony / PHP

Browserstack

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5. The right place

We put our team in the right place with the right process.

To ensure that our cooperation would go smoothly, we discussed the main communication points with Printbox. Then, we put our people in just the right place within the Printbox workspace and workflow.

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6. Agreement

We built a dedicated contract structure.

When we began building a common vision of our collaboration, we took a good look at the organizational and financial needs of each party. On that basis, we got together with Printbox to create a contract that fulfilled everyone's expectations and minimized risk on both sides.

Main goals:

1. Flexible team size and work scope

The business development of technology startups requires maximum flexibility in work and team planning. That's why we prepared a scalable team and range of services based on regular, monthly assumptions.

2. Flexible working hours

Dynamic growth also needs flexibility in budget planning. For that reason, we came to an agreement with Printbox on the minimum numbers of monthly working hours and a guarantee for larger numbers in the case of changes to their needs or budget.

3. Perfect double-sided contract

To meet the needs of both sides, we chose a contract agreement with a time and material model based on a monthly work settlement with the best rates.